Boris Johnson used his keynote speech at this year’s Tory Party conference to urge people to return to their offices this autumn.
Carrie, his wife is determined to show her dedication to hard work.
I hear she’s planning to take no maternity leave after she gives birth to her second child, which is due around Christmas.
Carrie Johnson, Damian Aspinall, and the Cheetahs of an Aspinall Foundation Zoo
Carrie (33), is the head of communications at Aspinall Foundation. This foundation runs Kent’s wildlife parks and allows animals to be released back into nature.
She’s been working with her boss, the casino and safari park heir Damian Aspinall, on negotiations with the Kenyan government about ambitious plans to send a herd of elephants to Africa next year.
‘She is completely dedicated to releasing these elephants in the wild and wants to be fully involved in the process,’ one of her friends tells me.
‘Carrie is a hard worker and will be able to juggle it with having a newborn — she’s already been working while looking after 18-month-old Wilf and a very spirited Jack Russell, Dilyn.’
It would be a highly unusual move, as women are legally allowed to take up to a year’s maternity leave, with up to 39 weeks paid by their employer.
‘I hear she’s planning to take no maternity leave after she gives birth to her second child, which is due around Christmas,’ Richard Eden says
As such, the Aspinall Foundation has stopped advertising for maternity coverage for this position.
The baby will be Boris’s seventh child by three mothers. Boris has four children now with Marina Wheeler (his second wife), and one daughter from an extra-marital relationship he had with Helen Macintyre, an art specialist.
Carrie is certainly not an easy task with these elephants. The project — a world-first — involves building bespoke crates for the herd, which weighs 25 tonnes.
They will then travel more than 4,500 miles to Kenya via a Boeing 747.